Tuesday, July 3, 2012

RIP Lambertus Marie de Rijk

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One of the true greats has passed away: http://www.newappsblog.com/2012/07/in-memoriam-lambertus-marie-de-rijk.html
Monday, June 18, 2012

Scotus the Voluntarist

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As is well known, Scotus is an evil voluntarist who separated morality from God by making the divine will the foundation of morality. Since ...
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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Buried Alive!

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I found another piece of information about the story of Scotus being buried alive.  This is from Ioannes Bremer, one of the 15th. c. Francis...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

More Aquinas Translations

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For Pre-order here : My question:  Why? We already have the old Dominican friars translation, the later translation contained in a milli...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Note on Some Translations of Scotus

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The following post is the result of a question that came in over email about the reliability of the following translations. Note that if our...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Alexander Broadie's Gifford Lecture

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Here's a snippet: Alexander Broadie, The Shadow of Scotus: Philosophy and Faith in Pre-Reformation Scotland , 22-23: I should say, ...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

MacIntyre on Scotus

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Our recent debate with Mark Wauk reminded me of the authority that Alasdair MacIntyre enjoys in certain circles.  I recently came across a d...
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Memento

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In the heart of Oxford there is a small plot of ground, hemmed in by public thoroughfares, which has been the possession and the home of one...
Monday, June 4, 2012

Pet Peeve

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Michael pointed me to this discussion over at First Things .  Someone kindly mentioned this blog.  One pet peeve I have with all "these...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Reply to Mark Wauk

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A blogger named Mark Wauk last month posted two essays on Scotus and the history of philosophy, here and here , in which he repeats the sto...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

On the identity of Quiddity and Esse

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Here's one for the Thomists: Duns Scotus, Rep . IA d. 11 q. 2 (Wolter-Bychkov I, 420): Idem enim est quiditas et esse. Here it is...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

On the Compatibility of Liberty and Necessity

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Duns Scotus, Rep . IA d. 10 q. 3 (Wolter-Bychkov I, 402): I respond, therefore, to the question and I say that necessity in acting goes t...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Petrus Thomae on Modes of Containment

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This is a follow-up post to the one on Scotus ' views of unitive containment.  Peter Thomae gives a more systematic discussion of the va...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Recent Dissertation on Univocity and Analogy

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Perusing the blogosphere I came across an announcement of a recent dissertation defense by one Domenic D'Ettore in the Houston Thomistic...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Leibniz on Scotus and Aquinas

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The following quotation is from Leibniz's Theodicy .  It is a section in which Leibniz discusses the idea of equipoise in the will, the ...
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